Presentation

The Psychiatric Department of Timisoara University of Medicine and Pharmacy was founded in 1950, by Professor Dr.Eduard Pamfil who also was the head of the department (with an interruption between 1955-1961) until 1978. Between 1978 and 1983 at the head of the department were Conf. Dr. St. Stossel, and Prof. dr. Mircea Lazarescu between 1983-2009 The present head of the department is Prof.Dr. Pompilia Dehelean, vice rector of Timisoara University of Medicine and Pharmacy.

Our department's orientation has been an anthropological-sociological one. In these domains numerous conferences and symposia have been organized, establishing a high-class school in Romania.

Beside local and national conferences, our department organized two international conferences of Psychopathology (1992, 1994), a Danubian Symposium of Psychiatry (1996) and a Franco-Romanian Conference with the participation of French and Romanian professor of psychiatry.

Cultivating interdisciplinarity, our department supported the development of medical psychology, of community psychiatry and psychoteducation, of various types of psychotherapy and of psycho-social rehabilitation. In these fields our department established collaboration programms with European centers in Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and France. The collaboration with psychiatrists from Clermont-Ferrand (France) and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry initated the training in systemic familial therapy in Timisoara.

The department offered postgraduate lectures in differentt psychiatric fields (psychopatholgy, psychopharmacology, community psychiatry, liaison psychiatry) and cooperated with several psychology departments (masterships in psychopathology).

Members in our department participated in 3 field trials for ICD 10 and in international multicentric randomised clinical trials and at the European First Episode Schizophrenia Trial.